____/ ml2mst on Saturday 25 August 2007 10:38 : \____
> [H]omer wrote:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that ml2mst spake thusly:
>>
>>> So I feel it's unbelievable that smart people like netadmins buy
>>> Microsoft's misinformation.
>>
>> Network administrators are not managers; they don't get to make spending
>> decisions. These campaigns are targeted at decision makers, who are by
>> and large non-technical, and therefore easy to sway with buzzwords and
>> propaganda. This is why it's so difficult for GNU/Linux advocates to
>> break though to such people; you can play the technical arguments over
>> and over, but to such people it's just noise. To them, the real music is
>> marketing gibberish like "People Ready". It's an uphill battle.
>
> Thank you for pointing that out. I should have realized, that netadmins
> are not the ones, making these decisions. I hope, next time I think
> more, before I click that Send button ;-)
>
> And I agree with you, that GNU/Linux advocates have a hard time.
> Fortunately, slowly but certainly, things seem to work out more
> positive. For example, last two years, I ordered 10 Ubuntu or Kubuntu
> CD's from the shipit service.
>
> Since I live on top of a mall, I'd spread these CD's to shopping people.
> on Software Freedom Day.,
Well done!
> with an information sheet including my
> snailmail and email address in case those people needed help.
> Unfortunately, up until now only two people contacted me, which was very
> disappointing.
>
> Beside that, the motion Vendrik was accepted by a vast majority of the
> Dutch parliament. The motion Vendrik states that the Dutch public
> service *must* support Open Source Software and Open Standards.
Excellent. Something that I have been finding very odd for the past 1 or two is
the fact that Holland is #4 or #5 in my Linux sites, in terms of traffic. The
sample set is very large.
> But unfortunately up to today nothing has really changed. The Dept. of
> Justice even made a huge order to Microshaft recently.
>
> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2801
>
> However there are a lot of interesting Open Source and GNU/Linux
> initiatives in the Netherlands, so that's why loads of Dutchmen and
> women are sick pissed :-)
>
> No matter how they're going to toss or turn it, within 3 years the
> entire Dutch public sector *must* migrate their servers as well as their
> client desktops to GNU/Linux. And I've recently read an article, that
> they're finally actually working on it.
>
>> This is why I support people like Ken Starks (Helios of Tux500 and
>> Lobby4Linux), who tries to market GNU/Linux in a way that is palatable
>> to these decision makers, essentially bringing it into mainstream marketing.
>
> I'm participating in the Artistic team of the Tux500 Project, especially
> on the "We need a theme song" subject. Most of the songs you can vote
> for in the subject's questionary are mine ;
>
> Anyway, thank you for reminding me, that netadmins (unfortunately) are
> not the ones who make the decisions. In that sentence I made a fool out
> of my self, by writing that. But hey, shit happens :-)
The crowd to aim for is probably that which knows nothing about technology and
does not rely on some 'professional' Windows-only applications.
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